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Zn/P ratio and microstructure defines carrier density and electrical transport mechanism in earth-abundant Zn3-xP2+y thin films

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Mahdi Zamani, Rajrupa Paul, Mirjana Dimitrievska, Valerio Piazza, Carlotta Gastaldi, Vanessa Conti

Scalable and sustainable photovoltaic technologies require low-cost and earth-abundant semiconducting materials. Zinc phosphide is purported to be an absorber material with optimal photovoltaic properties. Herein we report the electrical properties of Zn3P ...

2023

Rotated domains in selective area epitaxy grown Zn3P2: formation mechanism and functionality

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Mahdi Zamani, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Rajrupa Paul

Zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) is an ideal absorber candidate for solar cells thanks to its direct bandgap, earth-abundance, and optoelectronic characteristics, albeit it has been insufficiently investigated due to limitations in the fabrication of high-quality ma ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2021

Crystalline Order in Compound Semiconductors in Nanoscale Structures and Thin Films

Mahdi Zamani

Semiconductors materials and devices are essential building blocks for many of the technologies deeply embedded in modern life. Improving the performance of semiconductor devices requires a deeper understanding of the fundamental mechanisms controlling the ...

EPFL2021

Dataset for "Raman spectroscopy and lattice dynamics calculations of tetragonally-structured single crystal zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) nanowires"

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Mahdi Zamani, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Rajrupa Paul, Mirjana Dimitrievska

Earth-abundant and low-cost semiconductors, such as zinc phosphide (Zn3P2), are promising candidates for the next generation photovoltaic applications. However, synthesis on commercially available substrates, which favors the formation of defects, and cont ...

Zenodo2020

Carrier generation and collection in Zn3P2/InP heterojunction solar cells

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Franz-Josef Haug, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Mahdi Zamani, Rajrupa Paul, Mirjana Dimitrievska, Valerio Piazza, Julien Hurni, Vanessa Conti, Anja Tiede, Joel René Sapera

Zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) has been lauded as a promising solar absorber material due to its functional properties and the abundance of zinc and phosphorous. In the last 4 decades, there has not been any significant improvement in the efficiencies of Zn3P2-bas ...

ELSEVIER2023

Stoichiometry modulates the optoelectronic functionality of Zinc Phosphide (Zn3-xP2+x)

Diego Armando Sandoval Salaiza, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Mahdi Zamani, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Rajrupa Paul, Mirjana Dimitrievska, Santhanu Panikar Ramanandan, Maria Chiara Spadaro, Mischa Samuel Flór

Predictive synthesis–structure–property relationships are at the core of materials design for novel applications. In this regard, correlations between the compositional stoichiometry variations and functional properties are essential for enhancing the perf ...

2022

Raman spectroscopy and lattice dynamics calculations of tetragonally-structured single crystal zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) nanowires

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Mahdi Zamani, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Rajrupa Paul, Mirjana Dimitrievska

Earth-abundant and low-cost semiconductors, such as zinc phosphide (Zn3P2), are promising candidates for the next generation photovoltaic applications. However, synthesis on commercially available substrates, which favors the formation of defects, and cont ...

2020

PriFi: A Low-Latency and Tracking-Resistant Protocol for Local-Area Anonymous Communication

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Bryan Alexander Ford, Mahdi Zamani, Italo Ivan Dacosta Petrocelli, Ludovic Barman

Popular anonymity mechanisms such as Tor provide low communication latency but are vulnerable to traffic analysis attacks that can de-anonymize users. Moreover, known traffic-analysis-resistant techniques such as Dissent are impractical for use in latency- ...

ACM2016

3D Ordering at the Liquid-Solid Polar Interface of Nanowires

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Cécile Hébert, Michele Ceriotti, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Nicolas Tappy, Mahdi Zamani, Martin George Friedl, Luca Francaviglia, Giulio Imbalzano, Lea Ghisalberti

The nature of the liquid-solid interface determines the characteristics of a variety of physical phenomena, including catalysis, electrochemistry, lubrication, and crystal growth. Most of the established models for crystal growth are based on macroscopic t ...

Wiley2020

Template-Assisted Scalable Nanowire Networks

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Martin George Friedl, Heidi Andrea Potts, Wonjong Kim, Mahdi Zamani, Lucas Güniat

Topological qubits based on Majorana Fermions have the potential to revolutionize the emerging field of quantum computing by making information processing significantly more robust to decoherence. Nanowires are a promising medium for hosting these kinds of ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2018

Showcasing the optical properties of monocrystalline zinc phosphide thin films as an earth-abundant photovoltaic absorber

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Mahdi Zamani, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Rajrupa Paul, Mirjana Dimitrievska, Léa Buswell

Zinc phosphide, Zn3P2, is a semiconductor with a high absorption coefficient in the spectral range relevant for single junction photovoltaic applications. It is made of elements abundant in the Earth's crust, opening up a pathway for large deployment of so ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2022

Heterotwin Zn3P2 superlattice nanowires: the role of indium insertion in the superlattice formation mechanism and their optical properties

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Nicolas Tappy, Mahdi Zamani, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Rajrupa Paul, Reza Zamani, Lea Ghisalberti

Zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) nanowires constitute prospective building blocks for next generation solar cellsdue to the combination of suitable optoelectronic properties and an abundance of the constitutingelements in the Earth’s crust. The generation of periodi ...

2020

Thermodynamic re-assessment of the Zn–P binary system

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Mahdi Zamani, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Elias Zsolt Stutz

Thermodynamic phase diagrams are the cornerstones to develop synthesis of new materials. Zinc phosphide has evolved into a prospective semicontuctor for next generation solar cells, thanks to its abundance and functional properties. Here we derive an optim ...

2019

The path towards 1 µm monocrystalline Zn3 P2 films on InP: substrate preparation, growth conditions and luminescence properties

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Mahdi Zamani, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Rajrupa Paul, Mirjana Dimitrievska, Reza Zamani

Semiconductors made with earth abundant elements are promising as absorbers in future large-scale deployment of photovoltaic technology. This paper reports on the epitaxial synthesis of monocrystalline zinc phosphide (Zn_3 P_2) films with thicknesses up to ...

2021

Nanoscale Growth Initiation as a Pathway to Improve the Earth-Abundant Absorber Zinc Phosphide

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Mahdi Zamani, Rajrupa Paul, Mirjana Dimitrievska, Elias Zsolt Stutz

Growth approaches that limit the interface area between layers to nanoscale regions are emerging as a promising pathway to limit the interface defect formation due to mismatching lattice parameters or thermal expansion coefficient. Interfacial defect mitig ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Investigating the Effect of Crystal Morphology on Optoelectronic Properties of Zinc Phosphide Thin Films via Optical-pump Terahertz Probe Spectroscopy

Jean-Baptiste Leran, Mahdi Zamani, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Rajrupa Paul, Mirjana Dimitrievska, Léa Buswell

Zinc phosphide ( Zn3P2) is a promising earth-abundant material for solar cell applications but calls for the further understanding of its optoelectronic properties. In this work, we perform contact-free and noninvasive optical-pump terahertz probe (OPTP) s ...

IEEE2023

Multiple morphologies and functionality of nanowires made from earth-abundant zinc phosphide

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Thomas La Grange, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Nicolas Tappy, Mahdi Zamani, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Rajrupa Paul, Reza Zamani

Semiconductors made of earth-abundant elements, such as zinc phosphide, have the potential to substitute less abundant, highly functional compound semiconductors such as InAs or InP. Compound semiconductors in the form of nanowires could revolutionise appl ...

2020

Questioning liquid droplet stability on nanowire tips: from theory to experiment

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Martin George Friedl, Heidi Andrea Potts, Mahdi Zamani, Lucas Güniat, Lea Ghisalberti, William Craig Carter

2019

Raman tensor of zinc-phosphide (Zn3P2): from polarization measurements to simulation of Raman spectra

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Mahdi Zamani, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Rajrupa Paul, Mirjana Dimitrievska, Santhanu Panikar Ramanandan, Mischa Samuel Flór

Zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) is a II–V compound semiconductor with promising photovoltaic and thermoelectric applications. Its complex structure is susceptible to facile defect formation, which plays a key role in further optimization of the material. Raman spec ...

2022

PriFi: Low-Latency Anonymity for Organizational Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Bryan Alexander Ford, Mahdi Zamani, Apostolos Pyrgelis, Italo Ivan Dacosta Petrocelli, Ludovic Barman

Organizational networks are vulnerable to traffic-analysis attacks that enable adversaries to infer sensitive information from the network traffic – even if encryption is used. Typical anonymous communication networks are tailored to the Internet and are p ...

2020